Alex and Richard preview Week 2 of the college football season, which is light on big-time helmet games but heavy on interesting regional matchups. This episode has notes and observations on a big bunch of games, including:

* JMU at Louisville, a great Friday night opener for the weekend

* Baylor at SMU, where we should learn a lot more about Baylor

* Illinois at Duke, where the Illini put their playoff dark-horse status on the line

* Iowa at Iowa State, a matchup that seems hard to figure out because of how mediocre the Iowa offense was in Week 1

* UAB at Navy, which tends to run for a lot of yards against the Blazers

* Texas State at UTSA in the I-35 Rivalry

* Ole Miss at Kentucky, which prrrrrobably cannot do that again

* Oklahoma State at Oregon, following a little barb-trading by the two coaches

* WVU at Ohio, where Parker Navarro gets another chance to show off

* Arkansas State at Arkansas, a game that has literally never happened

* WKU vs. Toledo, one of the best Group of 5 meetings of the year

* LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Bill Connelly joins us to talk about Michigan vs. Oklahoma, aka a five-star true freshman against Brent Venables, aka Sherrone Moore against his alma mater

And many more games. We’ll see you on on Sunday. Produced by Anthony Vito.

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